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Home My WebLink About2022-10-18 Regular Meeting Minutes MINUTES REGULAR MEETING BOARD OF ALDERMEN RIVERSIDE, MISSOURI Tuesday, October 18, 2022 7:00 p.m. The Board of Aldermen for the City of Riverside, Missouri, met in regular session in the Board of Aldermen Chambers at City Hall, 2950 NW Vivion Road, Riverside, Missouri, on Tuesday, October 18, 2022. Closed session was noticed on the agenda but was no longer needed by meeting time. Mayor Rose called the regular meeting to order at 7:04 p.m. Those in attendance were Mayor Kathy Rose, Aldermen Nathan Cretsinger, Dawn Cockrell, Jill Beck, and Rob Milner. Aldermen Sal LoPorto and Steve Palma were absent. Also present were City Administrator Brian Koral, Community Development Director Mike Duffy, City Clerk Robin Kincaid, Public Works Director Tom Wooddell, City Engineer Travis Hoover, Police Chief Chris Skinrood, Fire Chief Gordon Fowlston, Human Resources Manager Amy Strough, Finance Director Erika Benitez, and IT Manager Jason Ketter. City Attorney Paul Campo was also present. PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE Mayor Rose led the Pledge of Allegiance. PUBLIC COMMENT None. CONSENT AGENDA Alderman Beck moved to approve the consent agenda as presented, second by Alderman Milner. Yes: Beck, Milner, Cretsinger, and Cockrell. Motion carried 4-0. MINUTES OF 10-04-22 Alderman Beck moved to approve the minutes of the October 4, 2022 meeting, second by Alderman Milner. Yes: Beck, Milner, Cretsinger, and Cockrell. Motion carried 4-0. MINUTES OF 10-07-22 Alderman Beck moved to.approve the minutes of the October 7, 2022 meeting, second by Alderman Milner. Yes: Beck, Milner, Cretsinger, and Cockrell. Motion carried 4-0. COURT REPORT Alderman Beck moved to approve the court report for the month of September 2022, second by Alderman Milner. Yes: Beck, Milner, Cretsinger, and Cockrell. Motion carried 4-0. 1 RESOLUTION 2022-114 Alderman Beck moved to approve Resolution 2022-114 Bill Pay authorizing the expenditure of funds for fiscal year 2022-2023 for weeks ending October 7' and October 14th in the amount of $683,864.19, second by Alderman Milner. Yes: Beck, Milner, Cretsinger, and Cockrell. Motion carried 4-0. RESOLUTION 2022-115 Alderman Beck moved to approve Resolution 2022-115 Purchase Autopulse Device authorizing the purchase of an Autopulse CPR Device, second by Alderman Milner. Yes: Beck, Milner, Cretsinger, and Cockrell. Motion carried 4-0. RESOLUTION 2022-116 Alderman Beck moved to approve Resolution 2022-116 Police Testing Material approving the purchases from Fire and Police Selection, Inc. for certain promotional testing material, second by Alderman Milner. Yes: Beck, Milner, Cretsinger, and Cockrell. Motion carried 4-0. REGULAR AGENDA PUBLIC HEARING Mayor Rose opened the public hearing at 7:05 p.m. to consider AMEND CODE CHAPT. 400 amending Riverside Municipal Code Chapter 400: Unified Development Ordinance Section 400.650 Signs Exempt from Regulations, for the City of Riverside, Missouri. She then asked for a Motion to continue the public hearing to November 1, 2022. Alderman Milner moved to continue the public hearing to the November 1, 2022 regular meeting, second by Alderman Cockrell. Yes: Milner, Cockrell, Beck, and Cretsinger. Motion carried 4-0. BILL NO. 2022-058 City Clerk Robin Kincaid gave first reading of Bill No. 2022-058. Hire FT Police—Johnston Alderman Milner moved to accept first reading and place Bill 2022-058 on second and final reading, second by Alderman Cockrell. Yes: Milner, Cockrell, Cretsinger, and Beck. Motion carried 4-0. City Clerk Kincaid gave second reading of Bill No. 2022-058. Alderman Cretsinger moved to approve Bill 2022-058 and enact said bill as ordinance, second by Alderman Milner. Yes: Cretsinger, Milner, Cockrell, and Beck. Motion carried 4-0. 2 RESOLUTION 2022-117 City Engineer Travis Hoover stated that there are three changes CO#5-Crossland on this change order, two decreases and one addition to the contract. Alderman Cretsinger moved to approve Resolution 2022-117 approving change order#5 to the agreement with Crossland Construction Company, Inc. for additions & Renovations Riverside Public Safety resulting in a revised contract amount of $4,443,454.26 for such purposes, second by Alderman Beck. Yes: Cretsinger, Beck, Cockrell, and Milner. Motion carried 4-0. CITY ADMINISTRATOR City Administrator Brian Koral announced that last weekend we had Trunk or Treat and Carved, the weather was wonderful and we had a great turnout. There are many holiday events coming up and they will be sent out as calendar events, so be watching for those. COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT Director Mike Duffy gave a brief report on the handout he placed at each of their places to review regarding the MoDOT 1-29/1- 35/US 169 PEL public meetings to address the a planning and environmental Linkages Study and funding for improvements. The first meeting is Thursday, October 27th from 4p.m. to 6 p.m. at the Northland Neighborhoods, Inc. ENGINEERING City Engineer Travis Hoover gave an update on his projects around the City. The next round to replace pipe (CIPP) in Indian Hills will begin tomorrow and notifications will be posted on the City FaceBook page. Curb replacements are going to be on 501 street next week. Asphalt will begin in Montebella next week on Phase 3 and Phase 4. Woodland, High Drive and 52"d Street milling and asphalt overlay will begin this week and into next week. FINANCE Finance Director Erika Benitez showed by PowerPoint presentation for the September 30, 2022 financial status with 25% of the budget year passed. She highlighted the funds and balances for income and expenses. The Sales and Use Tax is very strong. The investment portfolio remains strong and opportunity for questions was offered. FIRE Fire Chief Gordon Fowlston reviewed the September 2022 Fire activities report with all items are status quo. We have participated in many of the outreach programs as well. POLICE Police Chief Chris Skinrood reviewed the September 2022 stats. Not much has changed but a few things have declined, which is good. We have been participating in the events for the City, so training hours for us are slightly reduced. We are now preparing for all the holiday events that are coming. Mayor Rose spoke with 3 a man that has been observing our city and he highly commented on the police presence within our city. PUBLIC WORKS Public Works Director Tom Wooddell reported that there will be a curbside yard waste collection this Friday, Oct. 21st and there will be two more in November. We are preparing our fleet for snow and then in another week or so begin getting Christmas decorations up. LEVEE BOARD City Engineer Hoover reported that the landowner annual meeting is tomorrow, October 19tn MAYOR'S DISCUSSION Mayor Rose shared that her heart is full with everything that we have participated in the last few weeks. Our little event at Merimac and 52"d Steet was great to meet new residents and hear them speak wonderful comments about our City. Carved and Trunk or Treat was such a success. Chamber Director April Roberson is going to gather information on the areas that people came from through ticket purchases online, because we had people from all over. We had at least 800 children that went through Trunk or Treat and the trunks were wonderfully done. This is just one more thing that makes us Upstream from Ordinary. Today we had the NRCC luncheon at Argosy and it was a very interesting presentation on Bird Rides and where they may fit in to the Northland area. I appreciate and want to thank all the staff for making all the events happen and be successful. BOARD OF ALDERMEN Alderman Cockrell —Thank everyone for their work on Carved, it was awesome! Excited for all the road work that is getting done. Alderman Cretsinger— I was unable to be at Carved and Trunk or Treat, but you said that there were over 800 kids, do you know how many were at Carved? Mayor Rose commented that there were 1,000 tickets sold. It was a beautiful evening. I did want to say that the Homecoming Parade was very much enjoyed. We had three Aldermen participating that had three of their children in the parade as well, a cheerleader, a football player, and a band member. I also wanted to mention to Mike, and the Police have probably noticed that there is landscaping material on Montebella Drive, at the entrance. I sent out a notice on July 8tn, someone reposted it today. I can try to put out another notice, but I am not sure what will happen there. Happy Birthday next week Mayor. Alderman Milner —Thank you to everyone for all your prayers and support. It is great to be back in the room with everyone and I am steadily healing. I am very grateful to be here with all of you. Alderman Beck— I want to remind everyone of our Gatewoods Halloween Party and parade on Saturday, October 29tn at 11 a.m. Everyone in the City is welcome. 4 Hoover reminded everyone that there will be a ribbon cutting at the EH Young Dog Park on Monday evening, October 24th at 6 p.m. MOTION TO ADJOURN Alderman Beck moved to adjourn the meeting at 7:37 p.m., second by Alderman Cretsinger. Yes: Beck, Cretsinger, Cockrell, and Milner. Motions carried 4-0. Rb6in Kind id, City Clerk 5